The recommended book of the day is Frank Brady's Endgame" for those who are fanatic chess players
Click here on John Batchelor's interview with the author and click here on our assessment of Fischer's game playing style.
Friday, October 30, 2015
A Recommended John Batchelor's Podcast For The Chess Strategists
The recommended book of the day is Frank Brady's Endgame" for those who are fanatic chess players
Click here on John Batchelor's interview with the author and click here on our assessment of Fischer's game playing style.
/* Remembering Dennis Ritchie (The Father of C and Unix) */
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A few years ago, Dennis Ritchie one of the creator of C passed away in October.
For what it is worth, without Dennis Ritchie, the web would have never be invented. Who knows where Steve Jobs would be?
Some of us who were C programmers, have always felt much of the current technical state of the information economy was due to his work from developing the C programming language and Unix operating system.
“Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,” Pike tells Wired. “The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel — that pretty much the entire Internet runs on — is written in C. Web servers are written in C, and if they’re not, they’re written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C. And all of the network hardware running these programs I can almost guarantee were written in C. --- Wired.com
In our bookshelf, there sits many books on various strategies and tactics, Kernighan and Ritchie's C Programming book and the solution book still sit on the first middle shelf.
The Intent of Dennis Ritchie
Ritchie said he was hoping to make the work of he and his fellow computer scientists easier. “It was an attempt to improve our environment,” Ritchie said. “Fortunately, we improved things in way that turned out to be useful to others.”
Click on this link for more on his perspective.
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Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On
Dennis Ritchie (standing) and Ken Thompson at a PDP-11 in 1972.
(Photo: Courtesy of Bell Labs)
And then some.
“When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified. But Dennis had a bigger effect, and the public doesn’t even know who he is,” says Rob Pike, the programming legend and current Googler who spent 20 years working across the hall from Ritchie at the famed Bell Labs.
On Wednesday evening, with a post to Google+, Pike announced that Ritchie had died at his home in New Jersey over the weekend after a long illness, and though the response from hardcore techies was immense, the collective eulogy from the web at large doesn’t quite do justice to Ritchie’s sweeping influence on the modern world. Dennis Ritchie is the father of the C programming language, and with fellow Bell Labs researcher Ken Thompson, he used C to build UNIX, the operating system that so much of the world is built on — including the Apple empire overseen by Steve Jobs.
“Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX,” Pike tells Wired. “The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel — that pretty much the entire Internet runs on — is written in C. Web servers are written in C, and if they’re not, they’re written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C. And all of the network hardware running these programs I can almost guarantee were written in C.
“It’s really hard to overstate how much of the modern information economy is built on the work Dennis did.”
Even Windows was once written in C, he adds, and UNIX underpins both Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop operating system, and iOS, which runs the iPhone and the iPad. “Jobs was the king of the visible, and Ritchie is the king of what is largely invisible,” says Martin Rinard, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
“Jobs’ genius is that he builds these products that people really like to use because he has taste and can build things that people really find compelling. Ritchie built things that technologists were able to use to build core infrastructure that people don’t necessarily see much anymore, but they use everyday.”
From B to C
Dennis Ritchie built C because he and Ken Thompson needed a better way to build UNIX. The original UNIX kernel was written in assembly language, but they soon decided they needed a “higher level” language, something that would give them more control over all the data that spanned the OS. Around 1970, they tried building a second version with Fortran, but this didn’t quite cut it, and Ritchie proposed a new language based on a Thompson creation known as B.
Depending on which legend you believe, B was named either for Thompson’s wife Bonnie or BCPL, a language developed at Cambridge in the mid-60s. Whatever the case, B begat C.
B was an interpreted language — meaning it was executed by an intermediate piece of software running atop a CPU — but C was a compiled language. It was translated into machine code, and then directly executed on the CPU. But in those days, C was considered a high-level language. It would give Ritchie and Thompson the flexibility they needed, but at the same time, it would be fast.
That first version of the language wasn’t all that different from C as we know it today — though it was a tad simpler. It offered full data structures and “types” for defining variables, and this is what Richie and Thompson used to build their new UNIX kernel. “They built C to write a program,” says Pike, who would join Bell Labs 10 years later. “And the program they wanted to write was the UNIX kernel.”
Ritchie’s running joke was that C had “the power of assembly language and the convenience of … assembly language.” In other words, he acknowledged that C was a less-than-gorgeous creation that still ran very close to the hardware. Today, it’s considered a low-level language, not high. But Ritchie’s joke didn’t quite do justice to the new language. In offering true data structures, it operated at a level that was just high enough.
“When you’re writing a large program — and that’s what UNIX was — you have to manage the interactions between all sorts of different components: all the users, the file system, the disks, the program execution, and in order to manage that effectively, you need to have a good representation of the information you’re working with. That’s what we call data structures,” Pike says.
“To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consist and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge. They needed a way to group all that data together, and they didn’t have that with Fortran.”
At the time, it was an unusual way to write an operating system, and this is what allowed Ritchie and Thompson to eventually imagine porting the OS to other platforms, which they did in the late 70s. “That opened the floodgates for UNIX running everywhere,” Pike says. “It was all made possible by C.”
Apple, Microsoft, and Beyond
At the same time, C forged its own way in the world, moving from Bell Labs to the world’s universities and to Microsoft, the breakout software company of the 1980s. “The development of the C programming language was a huge step forward and was the right middle ground … C struck exactly the right balance, to let you write at a high level and be much more productive, but when you needed to, you could control exactly what happened,” says Bill Dally, chief scientist of NVIDIA and Bell Professor of Engineering at Stanford. “[It] set the tone for the way that programming was done for several decades.”
As Pike points out, the data structures that Richie built into C eventually gave rise to the object-oriented paradigm used by modern languages such as C++ and Java.
The revolution began in 1973, when Ritchie published his research paper on the language, and five years later, he and colleague Brian Kernighan released the definitive C book: The C Programming Language. Kernighan had written the early tutorials for the language, and at some point, he “twisted Dennis’ arm” into writing a book with him.
Pike read the book while still an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, picking it up one afternoon while heading home for a sick day. “That reference manual is a model of clarity and readability compared to latter manuals. It is justifiably a classic,” he says. “I read it while sick in bed, and it made me forget that I was sick.”
Like many university students, Pike had already started using the language. It had spread across college campuses because Bell Labs started giving away the UNIX source code. Among so many other things, the operating system gave rise to the modern open source movement. Pike isn’t overstating it when says the influence of Ritchie’s work can’t be overstated, and though Ritchie received the Turing Award in 1983 and the National Medal of Technology in 1998, he still hasn’t gotten his due.
As Kernighan and Pike describe him, Ritchie was an unusually private person. “I worked across the hall from him for more than 20 years, and yet I feel like a don’t knew him all that well,” Pike says. But this doesn’t quite explain his low profile. Steve Jobs was a private person, but his insistence on privacy only fueled the cult of personality that surrounded him.
Ritchie lived in a very different time and worked in a very different environment than someone like Jobs. It only makes sense that he wouldn’t get his due. But those who matter understand the mark he left. “There’s that line from Newton about standing on the shoulders of giants,” says Kernighan. “We’re all standing on Dennis’ shoulders.”
Additional reporting by Jon Stokes.
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/thedennisritchieeffect/
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Dennis Ritchie, Trailblazer in Digital Era, Dies at 70
By Steve Lohr
Dennis M. Ritchie, who helped shape the modern digital era by creating software tools that power things as diverse as search engines like Google and smartphones, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in Berkeley Heights, N.J. He was 70.
Mr. Ritchie, who lived alone, was in frail health in recent years after treatment for prostate cancer and heart disease, said his brother Bill.
In the late 1960s and early ’70s, working at Bell Labs, Mr. Ritchie made a pair of lasting contributions to computer science. He was the principal designer of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system, working closely with Ken Thompson, his longtime Bell Labs collaborator.
The C programming language, a shorthand of words, numbers and punctuation, is still widely used today, and successors like C++ and Java build on the ideas, rules and grammar that Mr. Ritchie designed. The Unix operating system has similarly had a rich and enduring impact. Its free, open-source variant, Linux, powers many of the world’s data centers, like those at Google and Amazon, and its technology serves as the foundation of operating systems, like Apple’s iOS, in consumer computing devices.
“The tools that Dennis built — and their direct descendants — run pretty much everything today,” said Brian Kernighan, a computer scientist at Princeton University who worked with Mr. Ritchie at Bell Labs.
Those tools were more than inventive bundles of computer code. The C language and Unix reflected a point of view, a different philosophy of computing than what had come before. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, minicomputers were moving into companies and universities — smaller and at a fraction of the price of hulking mainframes.
Minicomputers represented a step in the democratization of computing, and Unix and C were designed to open up computing to more people and collaborative working styles. Mr. Ritchie, Mr. Thompson and their Bell Labs colleagues were making not merely software but, as Mr. Ritchie once put it, “a system around which fellowship can form.”
C was designed for systems programmers who wanted to get the fastest performance from operating systems, compilers and other programs. “C is not a big language — it’s clean, simple, elegant,” Mr. Kernighan said. “It lets you get close to the machine, without getting tied up in the machine.”
Such higher-level languages had earlier been intended mainly to let people without a lot of programming skill write programs that could run on mainframes. Fortran was for scientists and engineers, while Cobol was for business managers.
C, like Unix, was designed mainly to let the growing ranks of professional programmers work more productively. And it steadily gained popularity. With Mr. Kernighan, Mr. Ritchie wrote a classic text, “The C Programming Language,” also known as “K. & R.” after the authors’ initials, whose two editions, in 1978 and 1988, have sold millions of copies and been translated into 25 languages.
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was born on Sept. 9, 1941, in Bronxville, N.Y. His father, Alistair, was an engineer at Bell Labs, and his mother, Jean McGee Ritchie, was a homemaker. When he was a child, the family moved to Summit, N.J., where Mr. Ritchie grew up and attended high school. He then went to Harvard, where he majored in applied mathematics.
While a graduate student at Harvard, Mr. Ritchie worked at the computer center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and became more interested in computing than math. He was recruited by the Sandia National Laboratories, which conducted weapons research and testing. “But it was nearly 1968,” Mr. Ritchie recalled in an interview in 2001, “and somehow making A-bombs for the government didn’t seem in tune with the times.”
Mr. Ritchie joined Bell Labs in 1967, and soon began his fruitful collaboration with Mr. Thompson on both Unix and the C programming language. The pair represented the two different strands of the nascent discipline of computer science. Mr. Ritchie came to computing from math, while Mr. Thompson came from electrical engineering.
“We were very complementary,” said Mr. Thompson, who is now an engineer at Google. “Sometimes personalities clash, and sometimes they meld. It was just good with Dennis.”
Besides his brother Bill, of Alexandria, Va., Mr. Ritchie is survived by another brother, John, of Newton, Mass., and a sister, Lynn Ritchie of Hexham, England.
Mr. Ritchie traveled widely and read voraciously, but friends and family members say his main passion was his work. He remained at Bell Labs, working on various research projects, until he retired in 2007.
Colleagues who worked with Mr. Ritchie were struck by his code — meticulous, clean and concise. His writing, according to Mr. Kernighan, was similar. “There was a remarkable precision to his writing,” Mr. Kernighan said, “no extra words, elegant and spare, much like his code.”
Mr. Ritchie, who lived alone, was in frail health in recent years after treatment for prostate cancer and heart disease, said his brother Bill.
In the late 1960s and early ’70s, working at Bell Labs, Mr. Ritchie made a pair of lasting contributions to computer science. He was the principal designer of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating system, working closely with Ken Thompson, his longtime Bell Labs collaborator.
The C programming language, a shorthand of words, numbers and punctuation, is still widely used today, and successors like C++ and Java build on the ideas, rules and grammar that Mr. Ritchie designed. The Unix operating system has similarly had a rich and enduring impact. Its free, open-source variant, Linux, powers many of the world’s data centers, like those at Google and Amazon, and its technology serves as the foundation of operating systems, like Apple’s iOS, in consumer computing devices.
“The tools that Dennis built — and their direct descendants — run pretty much everything today,” said Brian Kernighan, a computer scientist at Princeton University who worked with Mr. Ritchie at Bell Labs.
Those tools were more than inventive bundles of computer code. The C language and Unix reflected a point of view, a different philosophy of computing than what had come before. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, minicomputers were moving into companies and universities — smaller and at a fraction of the price of hulking mainframes.
Minicomputers represented a step in the democratization of computing, and Unix and C were designed to open up computing to more people and collaborative working styles. Mr. Ritchie, Mr. Thompson and their Bell Labs colleagues were making not merely software but, as Mr. Ritchie once put it, “a system around which fellowship can form.”
C was designed for systems programmers who wanted to get the fastest performance from operating systems, compilers and other programs. “C is not a big language — it’s clean, simple, elegant,” Mr. Kernighan said. “It lets you get close to the machine, without getting tied up in the machine.”
Such higher-level languages had earlier been intended mainly to let people without a lot of programming skill write programs that could run on mainframes. Fortran was for scientists and engineers, while Cobol was for business managers.
C, like Unix, was designed mainly to let the growing ranks of professional programmers work more productively. And it steadily gained popularity. With Mr. Kernighan, Mr. Ritchie wrote a classic text, “The C Programming Language,” also known as “K. & R.” after the authors’ initials, whose two editions, in 1978 and 1988, have sold millions of copies and been translated into 25 languages.
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was born on Sept. 9, 1941, in Bronxville, N.Y. His father, Alistair, was an engineer at Bell Labs, and his mother, Jean McGee Ritchie, was a homemaker. When he was a child, the family moved to Summit, N.J., where Mr. Ritchie grew up and attended high school. He then went to Harvard, where he majored in applied mathematics.
While a graduate student at Harvard, Mr. Ritchie worked at the computer center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and became more interested in computing than math. He was recruited by the Sandia National Laboratories, which conducted weapons research and testing. “But it was nearly 1968,” Mr. Ritchie recalled in an interview in 2001, “and somehow making A-bombs for the government didn’t seem in tune with the times.”
Mr. Ritchie joined Bell Labs in 1967, and soon began his fruitful collaboration with Mr. Thompson on both Unix and the C programming language. The pair represented the two different strands of the nascent discipline of computer science. Mr. Ritchie came to computing from math, while Mr. Thompson came from electrical engineering.
“We were very complementary,” said Mr. Thompson, who is now an engineer at Google. “Sometimes personalities clash, and sometimes they meld. It was just good with Dennis.”
Besides his brother Bill, of Alexandria, Va., Mr. Ritchie is survived by another brother, John, of Newton, Mass., and a sister, Lynn Ritchie of Hexham, England.
Mr. Ritchie traveled widely and read voraciously, but friends and family members say his main passion was his work. He remained at Bell Labs, working on various research projects, until he retired in 2007.
Colleagues who worked with Mr. Ritchie were struck by his code — meticulous, clean and concise. His writing, according to Mr. Kernighan, was similar. “There was a remarkable precision to his writing,” Mr. Kernighan said, “no extra words, elegant and spare, much like his code.”
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The Legacy of Dennis Ritchie
From our view, the foundation of the information economy originated from the mind and the effect of Dennis Ritchie and his many colleagues from Bell labs. His contribution of C programming and the Unix operating system is the cornerstone of the current Internet.
Most modern day mobile phones and embedded devices usually contained some lines of C programming code.
Regardless of your location, whenever the web is accessed and whenever an embedded device is used, you should know that Dennis Ritchie have played a macro role in making it operable.
The Importance of Learning a System Language
Whether you are a strategist or not, C programming emphasizes the practice of viewing and transforming data in its rawest form to an well-developed object that is complete, concise, fast, efficient and tangible.
Because of the amount of detail management, writing a C program is like building a car from the level of "nuts and bolts". It does take awhile. However, the operating speed is usually quite fast.
The Compass Theorem
The time that it takes to design and build "a car" with this exotic tool is inversely proportionally to the speed of the manufactured car.
To be a C programmer, one needs to be patient and disciplined. There is no immediate gratification from writing in this programming language. But this practice will teach anyone the skill of looking at data from a "ground up" viewpoint while being mindful of the numerous objects that existed within the system.
If you are a nerd, click here and here for the reasons why you should learn C. . . . Fwiw, it is still a popular language. IEEE recently performed a survey that confirmed that C is still relevant.
If the intricacies of C programming language is too challenging for you, try Perl. This language is easy to learn and is quite efficient in terms of system performance. While its cpan library is multi-facet and quite large, Perl is similar to the C programming language, that it is available for all operating systems.
/* Sidenote */
Click on this link if you are interested in viewing an online version of Dennis Richie's classic book on C Programming Language. ... Regardless of its antiquity, this book still sells quite well after so many years. This book is a super text for those who are interested in the fundamentals of functional programming.
/* Comments From The Compass Desk */
Knowing how things work and why it works are some of the keys to being a good strategist regardless of the type of terrain.
Having the skill of seeing objects, methods and events from a geometric perspective (the top down view,. the ground up view, etc.) is the holy grail of the strategy business. It takes many years of sound and solid experience to build this unique skill set. Processing it into a macro framework is the real challenge.
At some point, we will discuss about those very fundamentals and how it could be used in the game of staying ahead of the competitive curve.
On the 30th of Oct, lets celebrate Dennis Richie Day.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Succeeding by Assessing Strategically from a Chinese Strategic Perspective
Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought.
The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand.
Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat:
how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point
that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.
- Lionel Giles Translation
The Sunzi's Translation: Dr. Ralph Sawyer
The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand.
Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat:
how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point
that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.
- Lionel Giles Translation
The Sunzi's Translation: Dr. Ralph Sawyer
“These are the ways that successful strategists
are victorious. They cannot be spoken or transmitted in advance. ... Before the
confrontation, they resolve in their conference room that they will be
victorious, have determined that the
majority of factors are in
their favor. Before the confrontation they resolve in their conference room
that they will not be victorious, have determined a few factors are in their favor.
If those who find
that the majority of factors favor them, will be
victorious while those who have found few factors favor them will be
defeated, what about someone who finds no factors in their favor?
When observing from this viewpoint, victory and defeat will be
apparent. ...After estimating the advantages in accord with what you
have heard, put it into effect with strategic power (shin) supplemented by
field tactics that respond to external factors. As for strategic power, [it is]
controlling the tactical imbalance of power (ch'uan) in accord with the gains
to be realized. "
- Art of War 1 (Paraphrased from the Sawyer's translation)
- Art of War 1 (Paraphrased from the Sawyer's translation)
The Sunzi's Translation: Dr. Roger T. Ames
'It is by scoring many points (factors) that one conclude the right choice before the actual decision in a rehearsal in their own mind; it is by scoring few points that one conclude the incorrect choice before the actual event in a rehearsal in their own mind. The choice which scores many points will be the better decision; the choice which scores few points will not be the decision, let alone the choice which scores no points at all. When I make observations on the basis of this, the outcome of the decision becomes apparent."
- Art of War (Paraphrased from Roger Ames's Sunzi's The Art of Warfare)
The Li Quan Perspective on "The Victory Temple
"Those who excel in warfare contend for advantage with others only after determining through temple calculations that they will be successful.
"Those who excel in warfare contend for advantage with others only after determining through temple calculations that they will be successful.
Attacking the rebellious and
embracing the distant, toppling the lost and solidifying the extant and uniting
the weak and attacking the benighted are all manifestations.
The interior and exterior becoming
estranged, as in the case of the Shang and
Chou armies, is what is referred to as having determined victory through temple
calculations before engaging in combat.
According to T'ai-yi Tun-chia assessment method,
*anything above sixty a majority, anything below sixty is a minority.
... In all these cases, victory and defeat are easily seen.* "
- Li Quan's T'ai-pai Yin-ching
- Li Quan's T'ai-pai Yin-ching
Sunday, October 25, 2015
A Recommended John Batchelor's Podcast For the Desktop Strategists
The recommended book of the day is "Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach."
The writers are: Martin Reeves, Knut Haanaes and Janmejaya Sinha
We will review this book in a future post.
Monday, October 19, 2015
Notes on Jiang Tai Gong's Six Secret Teachings (Section 6 of Chapter 1)
(updated at 10.20.15 2:22 hrs)
The observed lessons from the sixth section of chapter one (The Civil Teaching: Six Preservations) are:
- To keep their position, a CEO should use six preservations: benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, trust, courage and planning.
- To find people who will use these, give them power and responsibility, then watch how they behave. Endanger them and watch.
- Never lose the three treasures: products/services that fulfill the immediate gratification of the masses; the building of productive tools; and customer service (The original transcript states agriculture, industry and commerce as the three treasures).
- People who operate in similar profession should live in the same location.
Of the six preservations:
- Benevolence shows care of others, who will care in return.
- Righteousness shows fairness and so avoids indignation.
- Loyalty engenders love and reciprocal loyalty.
- Trust gives people the scope to betray, exposing those who cannot be trusted.
- Courage leads people to admire you and inspires them to bravery too.
- Planning leads to deliberate and reliable action that benefits from thought rather than hope
Position people into "stressful" situations, where they can utilize their influence to save themselves by harming others, is a great test of character. We all have "stress" values, which are different to our everyday values.
Of the three treasures:
- Providing products/services by technologists and specialists that offered immediate gratifications to the masses (Original transcript- Agriculture is performed by farmers who feed the people.)
- Industry is the characteristic of engineers and inventors who build productive objects.
- Commerce is utilized by marketing specialists who provide the services and goods for the consumers and sell the excess products of many.
The three treasures are the basis for an ambitious capitalist-driven company today, as well as in ancient China. If all three treasures are secured, then the overall financial state of a company will thrive.
Sunday, October 18, 2015
The Theory of Applying The Whole Board View to The Real World
"While the amateurs concentrate their effort on their side of the game board, the professionals are focused on building the connectivity of the entire board." - Anonymous
The Whole Board View
To comprehend the "Whole Board" of a situation (The Big Tangible Picture), one must recognize the connectivity behind the situation.
Recognizing the internal configuration behind the connectivity is the first step. The next step is identifying the tactical factors behind the configuration.
It does require some some level of research or mindful awareness.
Having the skill or the correct software program to estimate the numbers behind the factors is quite beneficial.
Following are some of the tactics that one employs to see the "Whole Board":
Recognizing the internal configuration behind the connectivity is the first step. The next step is identifying the tactical factors behind the configuration.
It does require some some level of research or mindful awareness.
Having the skill or the correct software program to estimate the numbers behind the factors is quite beneficial.
Following are some of the tactics that one employs to see the "Whole Board":
- Recognizing the state of the strategic situation, the configuration of the terrain and the competitors within it;
- Comprehending the configuration of informational flow that occurs in one's grand terrain;
- Knowing the reasons behind the direct and indirect influences within the grand terrain; and
- Realizing who is adjusting, who is standing their ground and their motive behind their decisions.
Knowing the current actions within the terrain, the process behind it and the rationale behind it, creates the superior advantage that enables one to make the easy decisions for maximizing your profits and minimizing your costs.
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About eight to ten years ago, we heard about a major dilemma where a grand organization (Competitor A) was being outmaneuvered in the global marketplace by an upstart rival (Competitor B). The upstart is currently positioned #2 in their marketing niche.
This upstart has been utilizing a combinational approach of the various strategic principles (from the Art of War and other strategic classics) and the "GO (weiqi) game" approach of encircling their opposition in their various business ventures.
Competitor A operates on the metaphor of hitting the big homer while their counterpart is focused on incrementally connecting the dots by whatever means necessary. He also gather their intelligence by big data while employing their brand of diplomacy to win the hearts and minds of their future alliances. Their brand of diplomacy is about constant enumeration of their principles and their exceptionalism.
However, Competitor B's approach of diplomacy is quite similar but with different means.
Through their process of "whole board viewing" (Big Tangible Picture), Competitor B prevails by utilizing their competitor's own deficiency against themselves. Generally, Competitor A preferred the tactical approach of feinting and charging with minimal awareness of the Big Tangible Picture (BTP).
If you were competing, what modus operandi would you use?
Side Note
Macro economic numbers tell us that the winning streak of the Competitor B has slowed down for many quarters. (We will comment on this topic more in a future post.)
This upstart has been utilizing a combinational approach of the various strategic principles (from the Art of War and other strategic classics) and the "GO (weiqi) game" approach of encircling their opposition in their various business ventures.
Competitor A operates on the metaphor of hitting the big homer while their counterpart is focused on incrementally connecting the dots by whatever means necessary. He also gather their intelligence by big data while employing their brand of diplomacy to win the hearts and minds of their future alliances. Their brand of diplomacy is about constant enumeration of their principles and their exceptionalism.
However, Competitor B's approach of diplomacy is quite similar but with different means.
Through their process of "whole board viewing" (Big Tangible Picture), Competitor B prevails by utilizing their competitor's own deficiency against themselves. Generally, Competitor A preferred the tactical approach of feinting and charging with minimal awareness of the Big Tangible Picture (BTP).
If you were competing, what modus operandi would you use?
Side Note
Macro economic numbers tell us that the winning streak of the Competitor B has slowed down for many quarters. (We will comment on this topic more in a future post.)
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Global Triz Day
Today is October 15, the International TRIZ Day.
On that day Genrich Altshuller, (15.10.1926-24.09.1998), the founder of TRIZ was born. Since he passed away, his birthday date is celebrated internationally as a tribute to his achievements and contribution.
His methodology is helpful for those who deal with problems relating to technology, scientific, social, environmental, political, etc.
This methodology only works effectively if the Triz implementers can properly assess the order of their object.
Side Notes
There are those who wished that this idea should be more pervasive in our world. ...
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Thriving in the Information Economy: Becoming the Ultra Class Expert
An ultra class expert is a person who comprehends the connectivity of a situation. He or she anticipates all of the best and worst case scenarios that could occur and comprehends what are the possible exceptions for each specific scenario.
Balancing numerous factors in a complex situation is always a challenge.
Click here for more posts on this matter.